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Past AIA Event: AIA 2014 Convention

AIA 2014 Convention

Be part of the largest event in world architecture this year. PechaKucha Night Chicago with AIA Chicago and SOM are pleased to present this special edition at the AIA National Convention in Chicago.

This event is one of a series of "Design + Dining" events hosted by AIA Chicago in conjunction with the 2014 AIA National Convention. If you plan to register for the National Convention, you can find this event in the official convention schedule by using the code EV217. Non-convention attendees are welcome to RSVP and purchase tickets through AIA Chicago’s website.

Architect Carl Sergio travels the world listening to U2, channeling George Carlin and carrying a small backpack. He suggests everyone should try the challenge of breaking all of your belongings down, and only keeping 100 things. He is very indecisive when it comes to what kind of tea to buy in the supermarket because there are just too many choices.

Chicago based artist Petra Bachmaier wows the audience at PechaKucha Night during the American Institute of Architects National Convention in Chicago. She shares her husband/wife collaboration Luftwerk, which plays with projections on icons of modern architecture after the sun sets.

Puerto Rican architect Miguel del Rio AIA reflects on a great deal in just 6 minutes and 40 seconds, including fainting on a plane, living to the fullest, childhood, flying saucer conventions, David Byrne, rock n roll, and just generally how awesome life is.

From cribs to cathedrals and sun shades to research facilities, Eric Keune AIA, architectural historian, author and Design Director of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Chicago office shares his vision from the perspective of student and practitioner of architecture's Modernist idiom.

Mike Pfeffer, AIA Chicago member and winner of the 2014 national AIA Young Architect Award, has spent almost three months in the air flying between Chicago and China in the past six years. He talks about what this entails in his job as Managing Director of SOM in Chicago.

Parents are nostalgic for stuff they did as kids and wish that today's children shared the same passions. Of course, kids today are on to cooler things. As a child, Peter Exley collected autographs from entertainers, athletes and other celebrities. In adulthood, he's a little more focused, and nudges famous architects to sign books, napkins and drawings. He observes that kids today don't have autograph books anymore.

Marilee & Karl Rutherford like beer. Following a couple of years experimentation with home brewing, it becomes clear that they are quite good at it. Here, mid story, they tell the tale of making the transition from beer as hobby to beer as livelihood. It has a happy ending.